Vending-machine.



' PATENTED MAY 5, 1903.

w. J. RUSH. VENDING MACHINE.

'APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 26, 1902 3 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

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No.727.207. PATENTED-MAY5,190 3. I

W. J. RUSH.

VENDING MACHINE.

APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 26. 1902.

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ATENT WILLIAM J. RUSH, OF MILWAUKEE, l/VISCONSIN.

VENDING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 727,207, dated May 5, 1903.

Application filed June 26,

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM J. RUSH, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of \Visconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vending- Machines; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact descrip' tion thereof.

The improvements consist in certain peculiarities of construction and combination of parts, hereinafter particularly set forth with reference to the accompanying drawings and subsequently claimed, the object of the invention being to provide simple, economical, and efficientvending-machines especially designed for dispensing cigars from boxes in which they are packed at factories, provision being had for exposing open boxes of the cigars in glazed compartments of the machines.

Figure 1 of the drawings represents a vertical longitudinal section view of one of my improved cigar-vending machines, this view dicated by line 2 2 inthe first figure, and

Figs. 3, 4, 5, and 6, detail section views, respectively, indicated by lines 3 3, 4 4, 5 5, and 6 6 in said first figure.

Referring by letter to the drawings, A in dicates a casing thatis for the most part preferably of cast metal in sections assembled and held together by any suitable means, the general design of the casing being purely a matter of choice or convenience. The casing here-in shown has hinged top and back sections to facilitate access to the interior, andas a matter of detail the back section is provided with an eye I) for the engagement of a lug c of the top section, a padlock B being employed in connection with that portion of the lug extending through the eye when said casingis closed. Inclined parallel ledges d inside the upper portion of the casing serve as supports for a cigar-box 0, open downward at the top and at the front, displaced portions of the box being set in back of the same, as best shown in Fig. 1, the top, sides, front, and back of said casing adjacent to the box being glazed. It is proposed to make the boxes so that the bottom of each can be swung up against the back 1902. semi No. 113,207. (No model.)

outside the same when the front is removed, the lid being torn off and put in position label side out against the displaced bottom.

Inside the casing below the ledges dis a hinged inclined gate D for the support of the contents of the box 0, arms e of this gate being extended through play-slots in a horizontal slide E, that moves in guide-grooves provided in said casing. The slide is provided with atransverse depression f, that is normally exposed in front of the casing, and abutting the inner end of said slide is the free upper end of a lever F, having its lower end in pivotal connection with the casingbottom, a spiral spring G under tension being employed to connect the lever with a post H on said casing-bottom.

An inclined coin-chute I extends into the casing A, and its inner end forms ajunction with a horizontal coinway J, having a curved outer extremity, in a glazed upper section of a forward lower portion of said casing. The curved outer extension of the coinway is shown terminating at an opening through which automatically propelled coins find their Way, after having been exposed for a 1 time through the glass 9, covering the upper section of the forward lower portion of the casing.

In pivotal connection with the slide E, back of the depression f of same, is a coin-pusher lever K, having a slot therein engaged by a guide-stud i, with which a side of the casing A is provided. Inpivotal connection with the same side of the casing is a normally horizontal bar L, provided with a lugj, that normally extends into the coinway J in the path of a coin lodged at the junction of chute I with said coinway, and an upwardly-extending offset arm M of the bar is arranged to be normally in the path of the slide, thereby constituting a stop to limit its inward travel unless said bar is depressed against resistance of a spiral spring N in connection witha lug 7c of said arm and an adjacent side of'said casing. The disposition of the depression f in said slide is suchthat it remains outside the casing A unless the arm M- of bar L is clear of said slide, and outward from said depression the slide is provided with upper parallel longitudinal ribs f, for which passages are provided in the front of the casing.

The box and its contents being arranged in the upper glazed portion of the casing,its label, factory-number, and canceled revenue-stamp are observable. A coin P of predetermined value being dropped in chute I to find lodgment at the junction of said chute and coinway J, the pushing in of the slide E will result in action of lever K on the coin to propel the same toward the front of the casing, its movement in contact with lug j of bar L causing depression of said bar, whereby its arm M is brought out of the path of said slide. Inward movement of the slide brings its depressionfinto She casing, and by gravity a cigar is automatically fed into said depression, there being downward tilt of gate D, on which the contents of box 0 rest. The slide being let go, it and the gate D are automatically returned to normal position by the spring-controlled lever F, the cigar being then in the slide-depression outside the casing. In the meantime spring N acts to restore the bar L with its lug j and arm M to normal position. The ribs f on the slide operate to agitate contents of the box thatmay be in their path and prevent sticking.

While I have shown a practical specific construction and arrangement of parts for accomplishing the desired result, the detail may be varied in some particulars without departure from my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what Iclaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- I 1. A vending-machine comprising a casing provided with afeed-compartment and a coinchnte, a spring-controlled slide guided in the casing under the feed-compartment and provided with a depression, a coinway forming a junction with the inner end of the chute, a spring-controlled stop normally in the path of the slide to prevent movement of same to bring its depression inside the casing, and a slide-controlled lever operative against a coin temporarily lodged at the aforesaid junction, propulsion of the coin by the lever operating to retract said stop and permit full inward movement of said slide.

2. A vending-machine comprising a casing provided with a feed-compartment and a coinchute, a spring-controlled slide guided in the casing under the feed-compartment and provided with a depression, a tilt-gate operative in conjunction with the slide and constituting the bottom of said compartment, a coinway forming a junction with the inner end of the chute, a spring-controlled stop normally in the path of the slide to prevent movement of the same to bring its depression inside the casing, and a slide-controlled lever operative against a coin temporarily lodged at the aforesaid junction, propulsion of the coin by the le ver operating to retract said stop and permit full inward movement of said slide.

3. A vending-machine comprising a casing provided with a feed-compartment and a coinchute, a slide guided in the casing under the feed-compartment and provided with a depression normally outside the casing, a coinway forming a junction with the inner end of the chute, a leverimpinging the inner end of the slide, a spring arranged in connection with the lever, a spring-controlled stop normally in the path of said slide to prevent movement of same to bring its depression inside the casing, and a slide-controlled lever operative againsta coin temporarily lodged at the aforesaid junction to retract said stop and permitfull inward movement of the aforesaid slide against resistance of the spring-controlled lever.

4. A vending'machine comprising a casing having a glazed feed-compartment and provided with a coin-chute, supports in the feedcompartment for a bottomless box, a slide guided in the casing under said compartment and provided with a depression, a coinway forming a junction with the inner end of the chute, a spring-controlled stop normally in the path of the slide to prevent movement of same to bring its depression inside the easing, and a slide-controlled lever operative against a coin temporarily lodged at the aforesaid junction, propulsion of the coin by the lever operating to retract said stop and permit full inward movement of said slide.

5. A vending-machine comprising a casing having a glazed feed-compartment and provided with a coin-chute, supports in said compartment for a bottomless box, a slide guided in the casing under the feed-compartment and provided with a depression, a tilt-gate operative in conjunction with the slide and constituting the bottom of said compartment, a coinway forming a junction with the inner end of the chute, a spring-controlled stop normally in the path of the slide to prevent movement of the same to bring its depression inside the casing, and a slide-controlled lever operative against a coin temporarily lodged at the aforesaid junction, propulsion of the coin by the lever operating to retract said stop and permit full inward movement of said slide.

6. A vending-machine comprising a casing provided with an outwardly-extending coinchute, a slide guided in the casing under a feed-compartment of the same and provided with a depression normally outside said casing, a coinway forming a junction with the inner end of the chute, a spring-controlled pivotal bar provided with a lug normally engageable with the coinway forward of said junction and having an arm normally in the inward path of the slide, and a lever arranged in connection with the slide to propel a coin temporarily lodged at the aforesaid junction against the bar-lug, whereby retraction of the bar-arm from normal position is effected.

7. A vending-machine comprising a casing provided with a feed-compartment and a coinchute, a slide guided in the casing under the feed-compartment and provided with a depression, a tilt-gate constituting the bottom IIO of said compartment and having arms engaging slots provided in the slide, a coinway forminga junction with the inner end of the chute, a spring-controlled stop normally in the path of the slide to prevent movement of the same to bring its depression inside the casing, and a slide-controlled lever operative against a coin temporarilylodged at the aforesaid junction, propulsion of the coin by the lever operating to retract said stop and permit full inward movement of said slide.

8. A vending-machine comprising a casinghaving a glazed feed-compartment and provided with an outwardly extending coinchute, a slide guided in the casing and provided with a depression normallyoutside said casing, a tilt-gate having connection with the slide and norm ally constituting the bottom of 1 said casing-compartment, a coinway forming a junction with the inner end of the chute, a spring-controlled pivotal bar provided with a lug normally engageable with the coinway forward of said junction, an arm of the bar normally in the inward path of the slide, a lever arranged in connection with said slide to propel a coin temporarily lodged at the aforesaid junction against the bar lug to thereby cause retraction of the bar-arm from movement of same to bring its depression inside the casing, and a slide-controlled lever operative against a coin temporarily lodged at the aforesaid junction, propulsion of the coinby the lever operating to retract said stop and permit full inward movement of said slide.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand, at Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, in the presence of two witnesses.

' WILLIAM J. RUSH.

Witnesses:

N. E. OLIPHAMQ B. O. ROLOFF. 

